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Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?

Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.

I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

I think art is a consolation regardless of its content. It has the power to move and make you feel like you're not.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.